Lloyd Woodard: One Tough Cupcake

“I love the name. I love it. My coach gave it to me. It was my
first fight, and you know with your first fight, you’re all
nervous. I had never done anything like this before. I did amateur
boxing kind of, or smokers, but I went to Klamath Falls, Oregon. I
was with my coach [Matt Powers]. … He’s a great coach. He wears a
kilt out to the ring all the time. You see this guy with a kilt in
my corner, that’s Matt Powers. He’s the Irish one, but he said,
‘Let’s call you Pretty Boy Lloyd.’ I was like, ‘I don’t really want
to be like someone else and take somebody’s name like Pretty Boy
Floyd,’ even though he’s an amazing boxer. I love watching his
fights. But I wanted to pick the name so I was like, ‘We’ve got to
go with something else.’ He was like, ‘Don’t worry about it. I put
Cupcake down on the name and you’re just going to go with that and
you can change it later if you want to.’ I thought it was kind of
funny. Even when the announcer came up to talk to me, he was like,
‘What’s your nickname?’ I thought he’d already wrote it down on all
my papers and I didn’t want to confuse anyone, so I was like, ‘Put
down Cupcake. Yeah, it’s Cupcake.’ … And then after I smashed [the
other fighter] and beat him up, everybody was like, ‘You just got
beat up by a guy named Cupcake.’ It kind of stuck. Now I’m just
starting to change the whole thought process when it comes to
cupcakes. There are some tough cupcakes out there, and I’m one of
them.”